Generally a good place but careful about the team you in. - Senior Developer Atlassian Employee Review

1.0
Dec 8, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good perks in Sydney office; A lot of genius.

Cons

There are always some craps in such a big company, unfortunately I am in a bad team, like an really bad one. The team leader in that team, didn't want to take any responsibility, he "force" everyone do the code the way he think may fit manager's preference. That manager jump in to the team time to time to do some micro management, like in code level, nitpicking something like a variable name, like using lodash.get is slower than 'a && a.b', in a cached situation. (my argu is as long as it not a bottleneck of the app why dont make your code shorter and easy to read...) And they are arrogant to receive any technical suggestions that different to them. Also this team have really bad work life balance because the manager is just too ambitious.

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Cons

I want to start by saying I am not bitter or angry. Working for Atlassian was a whirlwind. I was there for 11 months before being laid off via email. In my time there, I went through 2 re-orgs and 3 managers. It just always felt like being on a hamster wheel… in a hurricane. Today I received an email 7 weeks after I was laid off that started with, “ Congrats on your first year at Atlassian—we know that's a huge accomplishment and are beyond thrilled to be celebrating with you!” It was a bummer to receive that, to say the least, but it included a link to leave this Glassdoor review to “ help provide invaluable insight to future candidates and help us to improve your experience as an employee continually.” so here I am. My advice is to do proper change management of your automated emails when you layoff 5% of your workforce so that emails like this aren’t sent to hard working former employees that you eliminated congratulating them on a milestone they never reached. I know this wasn’t intentional, but it hurt.

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